Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19

• Gavin Yamey,
• Seth Flaxman,
• Oliver Ratmann,
• Samir Bhatt,
• Swapnil Mishra,
• Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz,
• Jan Markus Brauner,
• Mrinank Sharma,
• Sören Mindermann,
• Valerie Bradley,
• Michaela Vollmer,
• Lea Merone

Affiliations

Gavin Yamey

BMJ

Seth Flaxman

Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK

Oliver Ratmann

Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK

Samir Bhatt

Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK

Swapnil Mishra

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London, UK

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

1 Western Sydney Diabetes, Western Sydney Local Health District, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

Jan Markus Brauner

5 Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Mrinank Sharma

5 Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Sören Mindermann

5 Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Valerie Bradley

5 Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Michaela Vollmer

4 Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

Lea Merone

6 College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia